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The Rights of Nature

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The Rights of Nature

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Nature has rights and it is up to us to make certain she gets them. A river has a right to stay clean and healthy and support the wildlife that lives in and around her. A mountain has the right to stay forested and protective of the wildlife that lives there. The air has a right to be clear and clean and sustaining. Nature doesn’t mess itself up, humans mess it up by our careless thoughtlessness. 

The rights of nature is an interesting concept. How are you doing your part?

I began recycling in New York City in the 80s when, at the first Whole Health Expo, they gave us cloth bags to carry our groceries rather than plastic or worse, paper. I have faithfully recycled for over 40 years. 

I no longer have a car but if I did, I would really work to get an electric one so I would stop adding to the pollution and the consumption of gasoline and oil. I monitor the thermostat in my home to keep my energy consumption low. I would install solar panels in a minute if I owned my space.

And yet I contribute terribly to the pollution of the earth. My food comes in containers that end up in landfill. I’ve been a vegetarian for 50 years so I do not contribute to the killing of any animals.

The rights of nature. How is your community caring for the rights of nature and how will you get involved to raise consciousness?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am more aware of the Rights of Nature and work to honor them.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Take a close look at your community and see how you can stand up for the Rights of Nature. 

===INNER WORK===

Judgment Versus Opinion

Judgment shuts us down. It sets up barriers. It separates us. Opinion, on the other hand, is more open-hearted and willing to change. Curiosity lives within an opinion.

Monitor your thoughts. Notice the depth of your response – is it a reaction or is it inclusive thoughtfulness?

Judgment closes us down and is final, whereas opinion leaves us open-hearted and open to new possibilities and change.

Are you judging or are you trying to understand what lies behind a position you disagree with? It doesn’t mean you have to change your mind, but understanding brings compassion and open-heartedness.

Sometimes your response is based on how the other person presents their opinion as what-is-so versus what you believe. We each monitor facts through our own filters but we also have the ability to change our filters at any time.

How thoughtfully are you developing your beliefs? How are you presenting your beliefs – as an opinion or an unmovable position? Our choice is to live our values and let that example speak for us.

That’s huge. How are you living your values? Do you even think of them as values? Kindness, honesty, compassion, inclusiveness come immediately to mind. Some are easier to express in life than others. 

We must learn to distinguish the inner guidance we cherish and from which we form an opinion, from emotional judgment, which locks us in. Listen to your intuition and allow it to guide you without hardening it into an opinion or judgment of the choices others make. Stay fluid in your examination of the world around you. Make your own choices based on your personal values. And question those choices to make certain they are in alignment with compassion, integrity, and open-mindedness. Judgment contains a strong component of a need to be right. It quickly sets up barriers. 

When a strong opinion shows up within you, pause to see where it is coming from. You may think, “That’s not how I would do it. That’s not my choice.” But make it OK that it’s their choice – unless it is doing harm to others. It doesn’t mean you don’t try to right a wrong, it’s just that you need to know your values within yourself to make room for flexibility in your viewpoints. 

Have an opinion but leave judgment behind.

===SELF-HEALING===

Believe It is Possible

What we believe is possible determines what we experience in our life. That is true in life and that is true in self-healing. 

Recently on a healing seminar on the Shift Network, I heard a woman share that she had healed herself of several major imbalances over the course of her 75-year life working with energy and biofields. So I know that self-healing can happen. Do I believe it can happen for me? I do. And it is – gradually, in small increments, over time. What do you believe is possible for you to self-heal? Change your belief and change your results. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Resourcefulness

Resourcefulness means finding imaginative and unusual ways to overcome difficulties. It sometimes means substituting one tool for another – like using a rock for a hammer or your cupped hands to drink water from a lake. Resourcefulness is shortcuts and workarounds. It often means simply identifying the task to be done and finding a unique way to do it. Like the time I dropped the open gallon of ice cream on the floor and because I can’t reach the floor any more, I turned a large basket with a handle on its side, placed it on the floor and scooted the ice cream into the basket so I could reach the taller edge of the basket and pick it up. You get creative and resourceful as your body defines its limits. 

Workarounds and substitutions all lead you to creative, innovative, and resourceful substitutions. Have fun.

Mindful Walking

I have been so caught up in how I am walking that I have forgotten to walk mindful of the world around me. So for instance, in taking out the trash I begin by simply focusing on taking one step at a time. But as I progress, I am able to feel the breeze on my face and the sun shining on my body and I can even hear the sounds of nature around me. All because I’ve paused to listen. Whether the walk is a short one with a specific purpose or a long meandering one for restoration, walk mindfully and let nature speak to you.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Cleanse Your Space for Healing

I learned a lot on the Science of Healing Summit at the Shift Network. One of the concepts that spoke to me was when they shared that in one experiment that had had a lot of healing going on suddenly it stopped. They realized they had to clean the incubator they were using so it could heal more. It worked.

What does it mean for me to clean my space? We’re not talking housecleaning here, we’re talking energy balancing.

In my meditation practice each day I ring a bell to disperse any negative energy that might have come through the night or still resided here. I have a conscious practice of clearing. 

Clearing out beliefs might be a bit of a challenge, but beliefs can easily get in the way of moving forward, self-healing and discovery. So when you’re stuck, look closely to see what beliefs you need to clear out so you can move forward. It may be as simple as saying, “I now release all beliefs that no longer serve me.”

As my body continues to adjust to whatever this is that’s going on, I get to focus on the steps it takes forward, not what still needs to be corrected. Focus on the positive.

You can have a ceremony of clearing or you can wave your hand with the intention to clear and release. Periodically focus on clearing out your meditation space, your workspace, and your sleep space. And then perhaps turn and see what you can do about shaping up your intentions to keep intentions and beliefs positive and open for rebalancing.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===

New Thinking

I may not be right, but I believe that it is time to move into a new way of communicating our offerings to people. I have a solid understanding of what I was taught 20 years ago as the way to attract people on the web to get them to look at your business and consider what you offer. But my belief system is changing and I have to figure out how and what I’m going do about it.

I am also working with several very strong healer friends on their website content. So the focus becomes more on the depth and broadness of what they do rather than the tools and techniques they use to create positive change in your life. The people they seek to serve will not go online looking for how to cure a cold. They will go online and look for how to restore balance in their physical body or in their life in general. And they will be open to subtle energetic shifts and both gradual and dramatic changes. But the question won’t be for the form that healing and helping is used in the moment, but the focus will be on the fact that change occurs. 

Years ago in New York City, I remember looking online at the site of a young man who was a Buddhist. Positive energy poured off the page. That’s what I think will happen as more and more energy-aware people search for help online. They will go to a site and experience the energy more than the words, and make their choice from the energetic connection they experience. Because they are more deeply attuned to the energy of wholeness, they will be able to make their choice to get the assistance they need to rebalance themselves based on the energy flow they experience from the site.

I seem to be focusing on healing sites and realized that if the web content is focused on the idea that core energy change would take place that would have a far-reaching impact rather than focus on a solution to a  specific problem, it would certainly attract people who were aware of energy, we who are aware of consciousness, or aware of how our thoughts can change our reality. Anyway, that’s my new thought on how to draw people to your business. I shall explore further. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Caring for the Next 7 Generations

As a matter of common knowledge, we know that a generation averages about 25 years—from the birth of a parent to the birth of a child—although it varies case by case. We are to make our choices with an awareness of and concern for the next seven generations. I had to look up the list.

  • The Greatest Generation (born 1901–1927)
  • The Silent Generation (born 1928–1945) (that’s me – wonder why we are silent…)
  • Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964)
  • Generation X (born 1965–1980)
  • Millennials (born 1981–1995)
  • Generation Z (born 1996–2010)
  • Generation Alpha (born 2011–2025)

I have great-grandchildren who are just starting their lives. And I’m sitting here with an environment that’s in trouble, humanity that is in trouble, and I’m also sitting here with a whole lot of new ways to do life differently – like solar power and space exploration.

I was reminded recently that I used to use a typewriter and I was in New York City when computers entered the workplace. Now I dictate into my computer and my phone. And I can talk to my TV.

My first tendency is to say I can help by holding High Watch. That means that I hold an energy of wholeness and positiveness and help make it stronger so others see it and rise to that higher vibration.

My choices leave a mark for better or worse. As do yours. Make your choices today as if you were preparing our world for your great-grandchildren and beyond. What would you like for them to have available and what would you like for them not to have to deal with? Build on that.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Spiritual Practice

Become a Pillar of Light

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper
Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Qigong Summit at the Shift Network, March 14-18. Qigong is easy to do and extremely powerful. The summit is an opportunity to listen to gifted teachers and learn more about how you might want to add it to go onto your life. Highly recommended.

===CARA’S CORNER===

The Catalyst of Change

I experienced a very powerful energy shift in one of the movements I do in my meditation and it is exciting. I get to look at how it happened and what it means and what I’m going to do about it. The movement is based on the spiritual practice of bringing energy up from Gaia, the earth and bringing energy down from the Cosmos. I have done that in various forms. But the form that offered the huge shift for me this week was my left hand reaching down toward the ground to bring up the energy from Gaia and my right hand raised above my head to bring down the energy of the Cosmos to fill my body with those energies for self-healing and balancing. Suddenly the connection was huge. I was filled with healing, wholing, balancing energy and all I was doing was sitting there with one arm down and one arm up. It was a major healing experience. I felt my whole body filled with healing, wholing energy. I was holding a position and the energy was extremely active. It was clearing and relaxing and restoring and rearranging through my whole body. It was a huge shift and an amazing experience. 

So what does that mean? I’ll bet it means I’m getting better at noticing energy changes in my body. But it also means that something has freed up, something is cleared out. There’s more room for rebuilding and self-healing to take place in my body. It also means that my awareness of that subtle shifting energy has deepened. What do I do now? How do I adapt? 

I simply let it unfold. It means that each time I do that meditative, intentional move or any other meditate move, I pay attention to any subtle shifts – what’s happening in my body and what new awarenesses I have. My intention was for healing my body. But perhaps my intention is to shift to broadening my vision and expanding my insights into what I am to do or consider next. My job is to notice the subtle shifts, interpret them, and then open myself up to the opportunities it brings for me to change. Change in my beliefs. Change in my expectations. Change in my choices moving forward. I am to adapt, and be open for more change. 

What shifts in energy have you noticed recently?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Shift

The shift was profound and unexpected. 

The shift was profound and unexpected. It opened a whole new level of expectation and promise.

The shift was profound and unexpected. It opened a whole new level of expectation and promise.

I will build upon that. 

Cara Lumen, March 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take. Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Journaling as Meditation

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Journaling as Meditation

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It is important to quiet your mind and sit in stillness and meditation. It is equally important to take time to contemplate what we discover. Journaling captures our insights and anchors  

When you safely capture one idea, you will find it frees your mind to remember the insight that lay right beneath that idea.  Journaling allows you to move deeper into greater understanding.  

Journaling allows us to trace our journey and see where we have grown, what lessons we have learned, and what mistakes we may be repeating.

There is a releasing factor to journaling. You store the insight in writing rather than have it bumping around in your mind.  Writing down one layer lets  you look at the layer below it. 

Journaling helps you uncover the missing pieces that can bring clarity or right action or deeper understanding. Journaling releases the clutter of the mind and leaves space for inspiration and creativity.

Journaling captures guidance and inspiration that might otherwise whip by so rapidly in our busy lives we miss its importance.  It anchors those ideas for deeper reflection and contemplation. 

Whether you write by hand or keep a journal on your computer, take time to review the insights you have received during your day.  It will help anchor and clarify and make room for deeper meaning. 

Open your heart and your mind and use journaling to converse with your higher self and the wisdom of the universe. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I establish a spiritual practice of journaling. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look for the time of day you feel like journaling.  It might be right after you meditate, It might be at the end of your day as a review, or both. 
  • Decide how you want to journal – in writing, by hand, through sketches, or on your computer. 
  • Journal daily. 
  • Periodically review your journal to notice your progress and growth and deepening insight. 

===INNER WORK===

  Stillness

Do you take time for stillness – like sitting outside on a quiet evening and listening to the sounds of nighttime? Or sitting outside and watching the clouds slowly shift into new patterns? Pause in the stillness before moving into your spiritual practice  and savor the moment when you end your day by offering gratitude for the experiences that have passed. Wake up with a deep awareness of the stillness of the early morning to offer gratitude for the clarity of the dreams of the night. Pause in stillness to bless your food. Pause in stillness to bless the work you just completed before sending it off. Sit in stillness to look around your home and appreciate what you have gathered around you. Sit in stillness with a friend, a loved one, and savor the connection.

How will you create more time to experience stillness in your life?

===SELF-HEALING===

Use Tuning Forks for Gentle and Powerful Self-HealingTuning forks help you retune your body, bring it back into balance, and help it self-heal. 

I have three tuning forks that I use daily – twice a day along with my acupressure and Guasha tools.  It is soothing and balancing and helps in the self-healing process.  You only need to use tuning forks three or four minutes a day to begin to feel the effect. You can apply the tuning forks to pressure points to affect the healthy functioning of all main organ systems. You can use them to deepen your states of consciousness. Here’s the beginner set of Bionic Turning Forks I use and recommend.

===OUTER  WORK===

Expectation

Is there a difference between what you expect of yourself and what others expect of you?  We all change and as we do, how we respond to input and experiences also changes.  Are you stuck in an old pattern of what is expected of you versus what you now expect from and want for yourself?

We all change and we must make room for our own responses and roles to expand and for that same change to happen for those around us. 

Mutate and Thrive

In her September  Newsletter Sandra Ingerman pointed out “Covid mutations work together. The virus creates mutations which help it survive and only grow stronger.  Viruses don’t fight about what color they are and if they agree with political policies. They work together and thrive. Covid was brought to us by the power of the universe to be a teacher in learning about unity, oneness, and the power of cooperation and mutual support.”

Mutate means change, evolve, transform.  

Change is about being flexible. It is about being in the moment. It’s about responding based on the wholeness you feel in yourself right now. It is not about holding onto past beliefs or past habits. We need to question everything. Everything we think. Everything we do. Everything we expect. When we change our expectations, we change our experience. What does mutation mean to you in your life and how will you allow yourself to evolve into this next role in the unfolding feminine?

Trust Your Intuition

Over time it becomes more than a hunch or an urge, it becomes a knowing. When you learn to trust your intuition, it can guide you in unexpected ways and in unexpected directions. But first, you need to learn to trust it. Notice the idea that becomes a reality. Notice the feeling that leads to an action that is unexpectedly effective. Practice with your intuition. Practice listening to its nudges Practice following where it leads and you will soon learn that it is a fascinating guide to new adventures.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Let Go of What is No Longer Needed

It is important to let go of what is no longer needed in your life. It is like clearing out a cluttered closet or an overstuffed garage. We need to clean our inner home periodically and we can do that with a small releasing ceremony.

The idea is to choose a form that represents what you no longer want to keep in your life and destroy it, change its form, symbolically release it.  Burning is good. There is a kind of paper that dissolves in water upon which you can write what you want to release and watch it simply melt away. You can blow what you want to release into a candle flame. The idea is to let go of what you no longer want in your life. 

First you identify the belief, the habit, the fear you want to release, then you decide what form you want to use to release it. Then you create a small ceremony of releasing.

We want to release beliefs that no longer serve us.  We want to release fears that are holding us back. Creating a symbolic gesture of releasing is one way to let go and move forward. 

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===

An Odd but Deep Relationship

Her name is Connie.  She is the Social Services Director here at my Senior living and she is retiring.  She is my closest in-person friend and we have beliefs at opposite ends of the spectrum.  She is a conservative Christian. I, of course, am a constantly exploring metaphysician.  She got Co-vid. She did not get the shots and I have had two shots and a booster.  She is very conservative. I have recently realized I am progressive.

The interesting thing about her leaving is how we will continue our friendship.  I don’t expect to see her again after she leaves.  I write about things that are far from her belief system so she will not be drawn to the ideas I share.  

We don’t talk about our belief systems but we love each other and I will miss her. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

We Need to Create a New Vision

It’s not easy to create a new vision but that’s exactly what we need to do. That means we have to look beyond what is showing up. That means we need to look at how we want our world to be. What our role in it might be.

It’s hard to imagine a new world when there’s so much dramatic tension and conflict going on. But we can purposely set our goals for the higher energy that we want in our world. The energy of inclusion. The energy of compassion. The energy of the highest good for all.

Upgrade your vision. Check what you think is possible against what you want to be possible. And hold that vision of positive potential strongly, surely, and passionately. 

What if? What if we began to embrace the more feminine qualities of inclusion and compassion and love?

As a normal human being, I’m not sure how to do that because I get mad at the people who endanger others by not being vaccinated. I get angry at politicians who seem only to want power not help their constituents. Getting angry doesn’t help. I just need to notice that it’s not the kind of world I want to help build.

So what do I, an 89-year old woman sitting in her apartment in the middle of the United States, do to change the world?

We’re talking energy here. I can vision. I can discover a unique and positive approach and write about it here in this newsletter. Someone else may read it and take up that banner. I’m not helpless here. I’m just not on the streets marching in protest either. 

We don’t have to figure out the details. We don’t how to figure out how peaceful coexistence works. But we do need to vision and expect peaceful cohabitation of this planet and conscious caring for the well-being of our world. Imagine our New World into being.  We can all do that.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION

The first talk I listened to on the recent Shift Network Healing Summit was Donna Eden.  I was drawn to her talk because what she teaches is so simple. Here is an introductory video.  I’m going to start doing this work daily. Free energy class  and Day 1 of Daily Energy Routine

===CARA’S CORNER===

My Best Work

I’m 89 years old and I just wrote the best website content of my life this week for my good friend Christina Gerber! Pretty spectacular. I guess mastery takes time…

Years ago I learned to trust my inner voice and simply write down what it was seemingly dictating to me. I learn a lot through my writing. I get myself out of the way and listen to my inner voice and write down what it says. I do that a lot. But even though I was approaching writing this web copy as I used to do, I also have known that it was time to find a new way to write about ourselves on our web pages so other people are drawn to our energy and our offerings. And I did. 

It was not about the concrete physical plane things that Christina does in her work as an intuitive healer. I wrote about the energy, the love, the intuitiveness, the depth of caring that she brings to her work. No credentials mentioned. Only love and healing.

Is that the message I’ve been looking for in my own life – that it’s not what you do but the intention with which you do it? Could be. I’m gonna look into that. Meanwhile, I just wrote the best website copy of my life in my very old age.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

You Never Know

You never know when the time is right.

You never know when the time is right. You never know when it will all fall into place.

You never know when the time is right. You never know when it will all fall into place. You just need to be ready to step into the opening.

-Cara Lumen, February 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet. Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences –  caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

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Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I’m not exactly in limbo but there is change occurring all around me and I don’t know where it’s leading or what my role is to be. I can’t force it. But I keep looking for ways to help it be revealed to me.

I pulled some tarot cards to get some answers. The first one I drew was “changed and possibilities.”

“Possibilities” is a door opener.  It is a game-changer. What do I need to let go of or do more or change in order to open up new possibilities? Sometimes all we need to do is sit still and contemplate the changes and openings in the new path that show themselves.

We must explore.  We must identify what calls the most to us and walk down that path a bit to see where it might lead. See how it feels. See if it’s a direction we want to go in. We must be willing to change.

We must explore our new interests deeply enough to have a sense of the possibilities it opens up. Their potential. The direction it will lead us. The gifts it will bring. We can’t always identify what opportunities and challenges a new choice will bring so we need to stay alert as we travel the path and keep making changes, keep exploring, keep questioning. We need to know how it feels, what changes would be possible and where they might lead. And with each step, we must reevaluate the new perspective it reveals. Consciously explore each developing new pathway, make your choice, and move forward. We must be persistent in our search, resilient in our exploration, and patient for the path of change to be revealed. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I stay open to change and the new possibilities for me to make a difference. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Keep a lookout for new concepts and choices that open up new possibilities. 
  • Explore those that call to you. 
  • Draw them into your life and go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Shamanic Ceremony for Guidance

Several things will influence the experience you have creating a ceremony. You will get better with practice over time.

The first is the skill and life experience you bring to the table. 

There are many ways to design a ceremony. It can be short or long it can be elaborate or simple. Explore different forms of ceremony and perhaps identify several that are applicable to different situations you find yourself in. 

My major form of ceremony is a shamanic journey. I journey all the time. My process is very simple. I decide on the purpose of my journey.  It may be guidance, it may be self-healing, usually I have a question and seek clarity. 

Begin your ceremony by centering yourself. I could play my flute or look out at nature. Or close my eyes and focus on my breathing.

In a quiet place, I use my imagination to go to my Sacred Garden and ask for guidance. The images that show up are mine to interpret. They are my spiritual guides speaking directly to me. The first three times I journeyed I saw nothing but a campfire and only sensed others around it. Be patient with yourself as you learn to journey. And don’t be surprised with the form it takes.  Trust what shows up.

The second contributor to your ceremony/ritual is your relationship with the unseen world and the guides that show up which deepens over time. 

I have a resistance to angels and when one started to appear in my journeys, it was only her feet and the tips of her wings that I could see.  It took awhile for me to let her in but now the Angel With The Golden Wings is often present to guide me on my journeys.

Trust the images that appear and trust how you choose to interpret them. All of these images are metaphors for only you to interpret. If you are not clear, ask them for clarity.

What you do with the guidance you receive is also an important influencer on the effectiveness of the rituals and journeys that you take. Do the work. Explore the suggestions. Let your guides help you unravel the question you’ve asked. 

Be willing to believe what you see. Be willing to listen to talking rocks and fly on the backs of big birds and communicate with dolphins. Listen and interpret whatever images and thoughts and ideas show up and trust your interpretation. Keep practicing and you’ll get better at it. This is one of the ways that the inner world speaks to you.

Always give gratitude for all the guidance and awareness that you’ve been given. Your guides are there to be helpful.  Thank them for their insights and wisdom.

Keep a journal. Take notes right after you have your journey or ceremony. And be aware of any changes and ideas that show up in the days and weeks that follow. Record those too. It helps to clarify the overview.

Our shamanic work comes with the obligation to honor the power and spiritual magic and not take it lightly.

Know that you are safe. 

Have a clear intention.

Treat the experience with great respect. 

Add a shamanic journey as one of the forms of ceremony in your spiritual life and gather to you the insights of the inner world.

You are responsible for your own experience.  Keep exploring. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust the Stillness

How much time do you spend in silent stillness? There is no better place to heal and regroup than in the silence of our inner world. I don’t mean sleep, I mean meditative stillness.  A time when you go within and create space for your inner wisdom, your inner guidance, to make itself known.  

The form that guidance takes may vary.  Allow it time to evolve.  

I was to lead a segment in a Zoom call.  I had an idea.  As the days progressed, I got ideas for different versions the experience could take.  I explored them as they came up, taking them a step deeper or in a slightly different direction.  I trusted my inner voice to take me in the right direction.  I gave the concept space to evolve and trusted the process. 

Set an intention and then sit with it.  Notice what comes up without judgment.  You will know when to choose and what to choose.  Let the stillness nurture and clarify. 

(It turned out to be a powerful experience for all of us on the call…)

===OUTER  WORK===

What Makes Life Meaningful?

The facets of your life that are meaningful in the moment change over the years as your life changes, as your focus changes, and your expectations change. What is meaningful for you right now? My mind is meaningful. Without it for me there’s nothing because it’s entertaining, it’s informative, it’s creative, it helps me reach out to others. 

Do you have a gift that you particularly enjoy or find meaning in sharing? Do you need to do more of it? Do you need to find a broader audience to share it with? How are you using your gifts? Who are you sharing them with? And how can you widen your reach? 

What Do You Want?

What do you want? What are your priorities? Is it your health? Your relationships? Your work? Your future? Choose one and begin to do some active work on it – both inner and outer. That means visualization. How could it unfold? What does that look like and feel like?  How will the choices you are considering affect others? The world? Your own life? Take a few steps.  See how it feels and where it is leading you.

Perhaps you need to work on not just what you want, but what you need right now in your life. That could help you sort out your priorities. Do you need friendship? Do you need money? Do you need better health? What is your main need right now and what are you doing to make it happen? 

On the physical plane, I want my body to feel better. On the spiritual plane, I want the world to feel better. I can work on both of those. But I need to know that I need them both and I want them both, so I can choose the right steps to take and the right beliefs to hold to help it come into being.

Make a list of a few things that you want and then prioritize them. Pick the first one and design three steps to move you forward in your awareness of its potential and impact. Your future is yours to design. It is yours to create. It is yours to cultivate. Choose in alignment with the highest good of all. And get to work.

Ideas and Discipline

I get tons of ideas. They crowd my head. They crowd my day, they crowd my work. I love them. But I continue to develop criteria by which to choose and measure the usefulness of an idea. 

Not all ideas are yours to do. They may be an idea to give to someone else. They may be an idea to be done at a later time. Don’t let yourself get so crowded with ideas that you don’t act on any of them. Learn to be selective and choose the ideas that take you the furthest in the direction you want to go next.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Above and Below

More and more healing practices that I come across begin by connecting deeply with Gaia and bringing up her powers, then turning and connecting with the cosmos, your Soul Star, Source. We bring both of those energies into our humanness and use them to release, restore, repair, and rebuild. I sometimes feel those energies coming from above and below turning into a counter-clockwise spiral, releasing, repairing, and replacing all throughout the column of my body. Use your imagination and take time to bring the energy from below and from above where you do your self-healing work.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===

Work With Another Light Being

When my daughter retires in a few years she wants to move into animal healing using energy techniques like Reiki. I’ve connected her with a friend of mine who is a very gifted animal healer. She will have an example and a mentor and a guide as she moves into her new field.

I have a small group of women that I interact with regularly and each time I do, I find insights and meaning and often new steps to take to enrich my own life. Do you have that kind of circle of friends? Start with one person. Find a friend that is on a similar track and arrange to talk on a regular basis, to encourage each other, and to share what you have learned.

I have a primary longtime friend that I was paired with when we were in one of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanism classes and we have continued to talk weekly for five years or so. We have grown alongside each other. We have supported each other in that growth. We know each other’s patterns so we can be supportive.

You will have different friends for different facets of your life. Encourage that. Explore that. Expand on that. In my case, I’ve introduced those friends to each other. They have developed their own relationships.

As you grow, your friends will change. Allow that to happen. And seek new friends that will help you move higher on the new path that you’ve chosen.

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Adventure and Potential

How do we know our potential if we don’t go adventuring? If we don’t try new things? Or explore new venues? How much exploration are you doing currently? Do you go a little way down the path you’re on to check out what else is there? Are you turning and exploring a whole new path? Will it take you on an adventure that will lead you places you cannot imagine? Be aware that you must continue to explore. You must adventure down unexplored paths and look around and see what calls to you.  When you go exploring you will find a new adventure and your greater potential!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Choice

There sure are a lot of us on this planet making a lot of different decisions, going in a lot of different directions, not at all in harmony with each other. It’s kind of a mess. I suppose it’s a growth stage. Each person trying to expand and find their role. Some are more aware of the consciousness of the earth and some have more compassion and empathy than others. It’s an eclectic collection of people all here on the same planet and we are not working in harmony. 

We must consciously define and follow our own path, our own heart. We must constantly strive to take the higher path – the path of inclusion. Not everybody’s going to be on that path. But we must continue our journey on the highest road we can find and keep making conscious choices for the highest good of the most people.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Expanding Awareness

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Building My Web of Life

As I look around to see how my “next” will unfold, the lesson of the spider calls to me. She weaves her world from within herself and builds on what she finds around her.  She also can’t see so she works only from vibration.  Hummmm. I want to create like a spider.

I am probably forcing my search for what I am to do next. In fact, I’m pretty sure I am. So if I take a lesson from the spider, what do I do? 

I am patient. I pay attention to what is inside of me. My thoughts, my urges, my insights. And I wait patiently to discover where I might apply those ideas. It’s the patient part I’m not too good at. But there is a serenity and surety and resilience about building on what you find around you and building from within you. I will keep practicing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision. My new path opens up, my new calling unfolds, and I move into a new adventure!

Cara Lumen, February 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

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Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

Living Our Deeper Song

Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

We have embarked on a huge adventure and we have no idea where it will take us but we have entered a new realm of inquiry and discovery. And we must do the work. We need to question everything. How we do things. Why we do things. If certain things are still necessary. We may be called to live in mutually beneficial communal settings. We may be called to develop skills we didn’t even know we had.

We need to question everything. Why are we doing this? What are the results of our choices? Is there a better way to do this? Am I the one to do this? Does this even need to be done? How is this impacting the world? We must examine and question everything we do to determine its impact and if that is what our world needs right now. When we do, we will begin to discover new ways of doing things, new ways of being, and new expectations for what is possible. All because we question everything. 

We must move into this new era with our minds full of inquisitiveness and pay attention to what we discover, then use that new knowledge to build our new world.  These are exciting times and we have a huge responsibility to explore and discover and choose for the highest good of all. Welcome to our new realm of inquiry and discovery.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I question everything to see if it is leading me on the highest path I need to travel now.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Question everything – everything you think you should do, everything you believe you should do, everything you are doing now because it’s all changing. And we must change with it.
  • Experiment. Test and explore the potential and possibilities of what you have chosen. This is a time of change. This is a time for a higher path. Pay attention. Explore and discover

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Our Inner Awareness

Release and Revelation

Sometimes it’s as easy as letting go in order to make room for something new to be revealed. Is there something like that in your life?

Striving never works.  The answer emerges when we release our concerns and even our plans and let things unfold. We examine the possibilities and the next steps reveal themselves. 

My work on my body is pretty focused. Not exactly structured but there are things that I repeat that I think are helping. I keep focusing 

on how each choice is working. The results I do or don’t get.  I experiment.  I let go of what is not working and make room for new ideas and possibilities to show themselves. I welcome the unfamiliar and explore it more deeply. 

At the same time, I’m exploring the Divine Feminine and that is very much an unfolding process. So there’s really nothing there to release except my excitement and eagerness to learn more about my role. And it is unfolding in the perfect time.

What aspects of your life are you forcing? And what will be revealed when you release that effort? Experiment and see what happens.

Be Available to the Inner Offerings of Your Life

Ideas often appear silently in my head, and unless I am paying attention, I can almost miss the message. We need to listen and pause to consider and explore the soft whispers of our inner voice. Don’t let those magical nudges escape. Pause to listen and consider them. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Patience and Perspective

With each step along the path, you get a different view. It may be a wider view, a deeper view, or a close-up view but each shift you make along your path changes your perspective and your potential. 

Be patient as you walk your path. Take a few steps, then pause to look around at the new possibilities that appear. Examine the new offerings, the new view. Look to see what you need to leave behind, what is no longer needed, what is holding you back. Each step is a new beginning. Each step has a new view and each step holds a new potential.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Deepening Awareness of our Cosmic Oneness.

Cultivate Inner Stillness

Awareness comes in the silence. It comes in the stillness of doing nothing. Make part of your spiritual practice a time of being still and listening. You may think nothing shows up. But if you observe, you may find that you have an inkling, a nudge, a feeling, and that is your inner voice beginning to guide you. Sit in the stillness. Arrange to have times of stillness every day. Be patient and listen. The message is there.

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Raise Our Sights and Our Expectations 

The Next 30 Years

My daughter will retire in a couple of years and I asked her what she thought about what she would do for the next 30 years after that. That’s a long period of time. She said she wants to work with animals. There’s an animal Reiki class she’s planning to take. How lovely to know a path for this next big chunk of your life. Have you thought about those last 30 years or so? How can you be productive? Who do you want to serve? How can you begin now to prepare? Give it some thought. 30 years is a big chunk of time. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Brave Souls

I have a new grandson born on January 31. His vaccinated and boosted mother got co-vid while she was pregnant but he is ok. He is a brave spirit. He is coming into a world of uncertainty. Of dramatic change. An urgent need to care for the planet. He chose it. He is a brave soul. We are all spiritual beings having a human experience. 

We signed up for this particular time and this particular assignment. We choose our personal health and the circumstances of our surroundings.  Our children chose us as parents knowing full well what to expect. 

There are two books that describe past life regressions into life between lives –

Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton  and 

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives  by Michael Newton

They are fascinating and open up a whole new world of possibilities to consider. 

It’s very interesting to know that we thought about and agreed to our time on earth. Yes, there are brave souls coming in right now. Let’s do our part to make the way easy for them.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Soul Searching and Re-evaluation 

The messages from the SpiritSong Tarot are mind-boggling for me.  They hold such promise and guidance.  A recent combination was “Soul Searching and Re-evaluation” followed by “Renewed and Enlightenment.” I have my work cut out for me.  

There are two powerful steps here.  Soul Searching and Re-evaluation is about taking stock of what you have created thus far.  Is it what you want?  Is it what you envision?

My list is only partially good.  I love what I am exploring and writing about and my body is healing but not there yet.  I am making progress on both and keep searching for new steps to take. 

Renewal and Enlightenment is the exciting part.  That meant I am on the right track, the ideas I am exploring will lead me where I need to go next.  It is unfolding and I’m on the high road. Yeah.  

Do some Soul Searching and Re-evaluation to see what got you where you are today and follow that by identifying your new path to Renewal and Enlightenment.

SpiritSong Tarot

===CARA’S CORNER===

Contemplation – Deepens Our Wisdom

I may overdo it a bit but I contemplate a lot. Much of this newsletter is because a concept sparks my interest and I need to find out how to apply it in my own life so I turn and write something to share with both of us. That’s a form of contemplation. 

I am not one to take a long time to make up my mind to take an action, but people often contemplate before they take a next step. I’m more of an impulse person. That or a fast thinker…

We need to contemplate the results we get by our actions because they are the reflection of the energy that we have put out. We can make adjustments then and there to do more or do less. Or do it entirely differently. Take time to contemplate what you are attracting with the choices that you’re making and adjust accordingly.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Silence of Knowing

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being.

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being. I listen. I experience.  I absorb. I consider. 

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being. I listen. I experience.  I absorb. I consider. Only when I grasp the impact of the whole do I make my choice. 

Cara Lumen, February 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

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Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

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Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

We can do this. Beginning right now you and I can begin to vision and bring in a world of harmony and integrity. It may take a bit to figure out what that might look like and be like and feel like. Harmony. For me that means more than coexistence, it means mutual collaboration and caring for each other. It means working for the collective and the highest good. It means inclusiveness which means everyone matters.

Integrity is also about inclusiveness. Every choice we make needs to be for the highest good for all. That means we have to think beyond our personal choices into the well-being of the collective.  I don’t exactly know what everyone needs, but I can intend for my choices to be for the greater good. The greater good. Helping the most people. Changing the circumstances in the most effective way. That shift calls to me and if it doesn’t, I get to change my thinking and my choices. Then you start living your life with the well-being of the greater good foremost in your mind.

What is that going to look like? I need to stop being angry at those I feel are making choices that harm values I hold dear – like democracy in life. I must not waste my energy being angry or blaming those who are making choices that seem to be in opposition to the greater good. The only sphere of influence that I have is me. My choices. My thoughts. My actions. And those thoughts and actions affect the whole.

When I monitor my energy and keep focusing on the positive, my entire vibration raises, and it is felt deeply within me and it radiates out from me and affects others.  That’s a pretty powerful stance to take – radiating out positive energy throughout my day. Through my focus and my choices. 

What would that world look like? Everyone helping everyone else. Everyone putting the well-being of the planet and our world and all its inhabitants as a priority for peace and harmony and well-being.

How will you vision a world of harmony and integrity?  Let’s bring it into being! 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I experience myself living in a world of harmony and integrity and it affects all I think and say and do.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Begin by visualizing a world of integrity.  Honesty and honor come to mind.  How are those two values prevalent in your life?
  • Look at the harmony you create around you. How can you take that harmony further out into the world? Do that. 

===INNER WORK===

What Is Your Filter?

I need to change my filters. I need to change what I am filtering and I need to change how strong the filter is. I need to stop watching the news. I can keep reading things like the Good News Network which I do every day because they always have good news  – people helping people, people inventing new things that will help the planet. What do you do to keep from focusing on the negative?

I get to choose the path of evil reaching out into the world that I want to directly impact. Discord between countries. Between people. Then I get to work with intention and visualization.

Does that mean I go off into my corner and think good thoughts? Maybe. But filtering begins with not listening to or not allowing some negative idea or concepts into your life. If I had a cranky neighbor, I would avoid that cranky neighbor. If I had a friendly neighborhood cat, I would seek out that friendly cat. I would filter my interactions, my choices. I don’t look at movies because I don’t want to see any violence – ever. I know enough about drama that there has to be some tension in order to have a plot. I don’t want tension. 

Be selective. Be aware of the impact that your choices have upon your life experience as well as that of others. I am not directly involved in solving any of the issues in the world today – other than my own personal recycling efforts as an example. But I can hold High Watch. I can create space in my daily spiritual practice to raise the vibration in the world. I can send positive, supportive energy to those who are doing good in the world. 

I don’t mean to isolate myself. But if I cannot have a direct impact then why do I drag myself down with worry or anger or fear? My job is to keep my vibration as high and focused as I can. 

The work I know I can do is in my own energy field. I am to keep my focus on the highest good. To deepen my relationship with the earth and nature, to raise my Cosmic Awareness. I will do some shamanic work on shaping the future. I will visualize the future as one of peaceful coexistence and a healthy planet. I can do that. Make time to raise your own vibration and intention by selecting strong filters to keep out the negative.

What Magic Did I Discover?

I have a rotating journal on a document on my desktop.  I should probably call it my Reflection Journal. Toward the end of each day I look back over the unfolding and write down what magic I discovered.  It doesn’t take long, and because I read the journal entry for the week before replacing it with the current observation, I can note the progress.  

Take a moment to reflect on your day and find the magic it brought you.

===OUTER  WORK===

Conscious Choices

The more conscious choices we make, the more we establish the pattern. So as I work to help my body realign I am making a conscious choice to stand up very straight for longer periods of time. I get up out of a chair and I stand – straightening my back, lifting my shoulders, balancing my body, engaging my core. That’s it. That’s my big choice my big conscious choice, to remind my body what it’s like to stand up straight. I can carry that a step further.  I can remind myself to consciously walk straighter.

Be conscious of what you have created in your life and how unconsciousness has distorted it or misaligned it. And use that same consciousness to bring everything back into alignment. 

Shift Your Gaze

Change and healing may be as simple as shifting your gaze. After all, what we focus on we get. So if I spend time focusing on or even paying attention to situations and circumstances that are not aligned with the path I am taking, I am not only distracting myself, I am weakening my focus on what I do want. I have to change my gaze. That pretty much means I have to stop watching the news. To do our work in the world, to affect the whole in a positive manner, we have to look for and see and visualize and intend the highest good and the highest outcome. We have to do it often and have to do it fervently, with deep intention. So if you don’t have some sort of small blessing or a small ceremony for the well-being of the world, perhaps you might consider establishing one. I have a soft hug-a-planet that I could hug and caress. I might want to choose a crystal that represents the universe and start sending energy to it outside of time in space. We can do that you know. Our intention moves through both time and space. 

What you look for you get. What are you looking for? Do you need to shift your gaze and focus on the highest good for all? Do that.

Put Our Oneness Above All Else

We need and want to evolve into higher expressions of our spiritual self. How do we do that? We put our oneness above all else. We are one energy. We are part of a cosmic soup in which our individual seasoning affects the whole. We don’t want too much of any one flavor. We want balance and harmony and choices for the highest good for all. 

How do I put the seasoning I want and the correct amount in the Cosmic Soup? I think before I act. I consider how far-reaching my choices may be. And I continue to raise my vision of what is possible.

How Balanced Is Your Life?

Is your life lopsided – too much of one thing and not another of another? It could be too much work, it could be too much play, it could be too much study, too much of anything that puts you out of balance. Perhaps keep track of how much time you spend on any one thing and what you have crowded out of your schedule, and see if anything is out of balance. Then make new choices to correct it. Sleep is important, eating is important, spiritual practice is important, and yes, look at work as a giving of time and energy for the well-being of others and see how that changes how you approach your work. Find balance in everything you choose to do.

Expectation

If you expect it to happen it will. If you expect it not to happen it won’t. If you expect it to be a positive experience, it will. If you expect it to be a negative experience, it will do that too. We have a lot of control over our life experiences by what we expect.  

The trick I play on myself around taking out the trash comes to mind. The day that I need to take the trash out I keep saying to myself “Think how good it will feel when I have taken the trash out.” And it works. I focus on the result – not the doing of it and it turns out that unless it’s exceptionally cold, it’s a pretty good thing to do.

How are you expecting your life to turn out? Change your expectation and see what shows up.  You have great power in what you draw into your life.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Potential and Imagination

New things are constantly being invented because someone sees a need or discovers a new way to do something more easily or less expensively. When an idea takes shape there’s a new way to accomplish something. Usually, our inventions, our creative urges, come in certain sudden complete bursts, flashes of images or awareness. There is seldom a struggle. It usually happens in a moment in which something you’ve been thinking about, or were contemplating, suddenly appears as it needs to be in order for you to take your next step.

Sometimes we start with a problem to solve or a need that needs attending. Other times we are presented with an idea and have to really figure out what its potential is and how it can be used so it can be utilized. Give your mind room to roam. Trust the images that come to you and take a little longer to look at them from all sides. See how they might be of service or if they are already in service and also if you are the one to do it.

I am a naturally enthusiastic person so I am guided well by my curiosity and eagerness to learn. I go where it leads me. I explore what I find. I see what I need to learn next. But always it is my expansive imagination that I allow to guide me in the direction I am being called. Let yourself be nudged by whatever crosses your path, in your mind, in the course of your day. A new invention in the world might open up new possibilities for you. A flying car just got approved for flying. What would you do with a fleet of flying cars? There is a new door that just opened.

In my role as I grow older, I am grateful that I can dictate into these computer machines before me and have words appear that I can share with you. It allows me to journey within and listen more deeply and share in a more meaningful way with you.

Notice what inventions and opportunities show up in the world and use your imagination to journey down past the possibilities to see new ways they might be in service. It may or may not be yours to do but you can explore any path that shows up. Use your imagination to discover your potential. 

Creative Spirituality

I have a great many plant stands in my apartment.  They are lightweight, they are portable, they are rearrangeable, they are a good height and they make great altars.  

I have recently set up a plant stand altar to work with Sekhmet.  I have talked to my rather large crystal collection and a few have spoken to me to participate.  I have a small film container with sand from Luxor that was brought back to me 50 years ago by some friends who traveled there, and a very small crystal that spent the night in Great Pyramid that was given to me by a Reiki student.  The most interesting stone that spoke to me was a tiger’s eye which fits perfectly with the lion aspect of Sekhmet.  When you look and explore the energy, you will find the perfect pieces to gather into an altar.  

I have not started the actual work but the book has a lovely idea for knotting your ideas into a ball and then burning them.  Now I have been here when a resident accidentally sets off the fire alarm and hall doors shut and everyone pours out into the hall until the source is discovered and the firemen fighters come or we are told it’s ok.

That particular image looms large as I prepare my spiritual work with Sekhmet.  I have dissolvable paper and a small dish that is shaped like an open lotus. I will use that as a gentler way to release what needs to go.  

As you develop your spiritual practice, be creative and make it work for you.

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Transformations and Mutations

Transformations (dramatic change) and mutations (gradual modifications) are prevalent as we move into and through this evolving mutation of our planet and our world and our lives.  Nothing is left untouched.  Sometimes the experience is like having a bandage ripped off to make the discomfort shorter.  Sometimes it seems to take forever to get the message and make the change.  But it’s all going in one direction – the emergence and establishment of the Divine Feminine as the dominant energy in our world. 

The blatant changes are pretty obvious because there is a lot of resistance to the major changes.  It’s the subtle changes we get to keep an eye on and learn from.  New ideas are emerging. Which ones call to us? Which ones are aligned with our belief system? How does our belief system need to change? This is a period of great questioning and exploration, of self-examination. And thoughtful re-choosing about everything. What we think. What we do.  

Examine what shows up from every angle before making a choice. Look at its long-term consequences and see if that’s where you want to go. This is indeed a time of change, but it is a time of thoughtful choice. Move forward in awareness. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Cherish The Now, Make It Better

Before we get all caught up in what if’s, let’s look around at what we have present in our lives now. Yes, we created what is there by our choices and our beliefs. So what do we need to change in our choices and our beliefs? As we change our focus and our expectations, we will change our present experience.  What we focus on is important because what we focus on we get. So if I choose to focus on the serenity of the day, the beauty of nature, the inquisitiveness of my mind, I will have one experience. If I look for and focus on the anger and chaos in the world, I will have an entirely different experience. It’s good to keep aware, but it’s not good to stay around in the mundane mess of change. One step at a time. Look around. Access your position and take another step forward. Perhaps on a new path, perhaps further down the same path. Make course corrections and offer gratitude for where you are throughout the day.

Women Can Do It All

As I begin to look into various Egyptian goddesses, I see there are not many of them and they do it all. They are warriors, they are healers, they are guardians, they are leaders. Is that because there were so few of them or is that just because they were female? Women still play all of those roles today – protector, teacher, healer, guide, wage earner. Versatility is the gift of being female. Cherish it and cultivate it. 

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

Protectress of the Divine Order

Sekhmet has many roles, Daughter of Ra, Protector of Pharos, healer, but she is also the Protectress of the Divine Order which I find to be a fascinating responsibility.  

I think a portion of our job as the Circle of Light Beings is to help bring into a new order, a divine way of being. I don’t think that means sitting in sacred silence and contemplation. I do think it means living with conscious awareness. Making certain that we care for each other. That we make choices that benefit the most of us.  

How will I begin to consciously bring my consciousness of Sekhmet here to my life? I like the role of protector. In my writing, I try to help us all move into a higher vibration and interact with each other on that higher plane.  I’m not organizing anyone. I’m not leading anyone. But I am offering us an opportunity to think, to consider in choosing a more conscious fashion what will be the highest good for our collective essence.

It begins with monitoring myself to make certain that my thoughts and intentions are positive and for the highest good. Most of the time they are. Perhaps not on as grand a scale as they could be if I paid attention and thought about them more.

What is your sphere of influence? How do you affect it? What could you do differently? Do that. 

The Divine Masculine Fights Back

It was pointed out on the news recently that masculinity started fighting back in the 80s when the women’s rights movement was stepping forward. Does that mean that we will always live with the push and shove conflict around dominance?  What happens to choosing the needed skill set regardless of which sex has it and working with that? We have these archaic roles we have been playing for generations. 

Each of us, male or female, has to live with an expanding expression of inclusion and compassion.  And that calls for a lot of flexibility, give and take, stepping aside and stepping forward.  

I don’t interact with people much and seldom anymore with men but the lesson is still there – we must share the path and the roles and the responsibility based on the unique gifts we have been given. 

I am a strong woman.  Both the men who married me were weak and needed my strength. Unfortunately, I had been brought up with a men-are-the stronger sex mentality and did not know they were attracted to my strength. I’m not even sure those two men knew my strength and competency was part of their attraction to me. And I realize now they chose, I simply responded.  The need was not in me, the expectation to let them choose was. We each have individual strengths and tendencies.  We are to honor them.

I think we need to each learn to stand alone more.  We need to walk our own path and carry our own load.  Are you aware of your own gifts and strengths?  Have you developed them?  Are you expressing them to the fullest?  

I’m a gifted organizer and have stepped into that role at various stages of my life.  Currently one of the ways I express my organizational ability is through organizing my ideas into this newsletter.  

How are you sharing your gifts?  Where are you sharing them?  Do you recognize their value?  Do others? Acknowledge the value of your own contributions. 

Our Role in the World

“Everything, as horrendous as it looks out in the world, is something contained within ourselves, for we are ultimately all connected, one organism.  We are part of the collective consciousness that is creating the insanity.  In this work we look for those things inside of us that we can transform and, in so doing, we are doing our part to heal the world.” 

– Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess by Nicki Scully

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=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Transition Equals Liberation Equals Transformation

I drew the SpiritSong Tarot card “Transformation” and the words that defined it were “Transition” and
“Liberation”.  It’s a huge opportunity to look at change. How we change, what steps we take to change. The first step is to be willing to change. And then you begin to make the transition into the next version of what is possible. Whether it’s something you choose or if it is something that happens – the first step in change is transition. 

And gradually as you make this transition you let things go, you release all beliefs that no longer serve. You release all habits that are no longer useful. You are freer to become liberated, to stand taller, to walk a higher path. The result is transformation. Let go of what you no longer need and make room for new more positive ideas and inspiration to come in. Transition equals liberation, equals transformation.

SpiritSong Tarot

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Noticing the Cycles

I spent three or four years taking three or four lengthy online classes at The Shift Network each year. Most of them were about my spiritual practice. But I learned a lot. And now suddenly I am full up. It’s not that I know everything. It’s that

I am no longer bouncing around studying everything in sight. In fact I have a Qigong class I haven’t finished. Shame on me. 

Cycles are just that – cycles. You may get super enthusiastic about one aspect of your life and then all of a sudden you’re full up. Then you go do something else. That’s how we learn. I am in a new cycle. It’s just unfolding so I can’t exactly tell you what it is, but I am actively in it. And I had a few months of simply waiting for the direction to unfold. I knew it was coming. I just didn’t know what it was. So be patient with your cycles. Be patient with your unfolding. Like everything that grows and develops, it starts with a small bud that takes time to blossom and mature, offer its gifts, and then gradually move on. Enjoy the cycles of your life. Honor them. Learn from them. And allow yourself to change because of the steps that you take.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Cycles of Change

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable.

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable. When I look, when I watch, when I observe, I see the change and I respond to it.

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable. When I look, when I watch, when I observe, I see the change and I respond to it. Like a seedling growing into a tree, I let my life unfold.

-Cara Lumen, February 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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